Securing What Matters
By facilitating the exchange of insights, threat intelligence and best practices, Security Days aims to bridge divides and nurture connections among cybersecurity experts and individuals with an interest in security from across the international R&E community and beyond. As National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) continue to strengthen the infrastructure of academic and research institutions, the focus on security is more crucial than ever. “Securing What Matters” highlights the essential task of safeguarding our most critical assets encouraging to recognise and prioritise what needs to be protected. It advocates for a comprehensive approach to security, ensuring that we address the vital aspects that keep our environment safe and resilient.
Topics
- Ethics in Security: Ensuring the services and approaches we use are ethical, designed to support users and meet societal goals such as green security initiatives.
- Usability and Security: Ensuring that we maintain an excellent user experience that is supported and enhanced by security.
- Hands on Security: Exploring the practical aspects of how we delivery our security services, tools and support.
- Security Leadership: Focus on the strategic aspects of security management, including developing a security culture within organisations, leading security teams and making informed decisions to mitigate risks.
- Securing the Network: Address the technical measures and best practices for protecting network infrastructure. Highlight the importance of continuous monitoring, regular update and incident response planning to maintain network integrity and protect against cyber threats.
Who should participate?
CISOs, security strategists, coordinators of CSIRT teams, developers of security services, security management professionals, incident responders and the visionary leaders within the security realm.
Call for Proposals
The call for proposals will open on 1st December 2024.
We welcome three types of submission:
- single presentations (20 minutes plus discussion). These presentations will be group topically and you will be asked by your chair to prepare for and participate in questions and discussions as part of your session.
- lightning talks (5 minutes). Lightning talks are a rapid-fire approach to introducing a thought, idea or call for action. They will take place back to back and there is no Q&A, but there will be plenty of opportunities to network with participants after your presentation.
- panel presentations (90 minutes). This moderated discussion can include up to 4 panelists. We ask that all panel proposals are fully scoped out and have speakers identified at submission.
All submissions must be written in English and all presentations must be given in English.
GÉANT Security Days does not support any remote contributions as the conference is a networking in-person event. If in-person participation is not possible for you, please reach out to the event organisers before submitting your proposal.
NOTE As part of your submission, we ask you to give us your name and email address. We collect this personal data so that we can inform you of the outcome of the marking process. Please see the GÉANT Privacy Policy for further information about how we collect and process personal data and your rights regarding that process.
